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  • A History of the English Church in New Zealand

    by Henry Thomas Purchas ...
    "A History of the English Church in New Zealand" by Henry Thomas Purchas offers a comprehensive exploration of the establishment and development of the Anglican Church in New Zealand. The book delves into the early missionary efforts, the challenges faced by clergy, and the cultural interactions between the church and indigenous Māori communities. Purchas meticulously documents the growth of the ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of the English Church in New Zealand

    Enriched edition. Exploring Anglicanism in Colonial New Zealand

    by Henry Thomas Purchas, Alicia Stevens ...
    In "A History of the English Church in New Zealand," Henry Thomas Purchas provides a comprehensive examination of the establishment, growth, and impact of the Anglican Church within New Zealand's unique cultural and social landscape. Employing a meticulous historical narrative style, Purchas weaves together primary sources and personal accounts, offering readers an intricate portrayal of the ... Read more

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    Sleeping with Your Ears Open

    by Gary McKay ...
    On Patrol with the SAS takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Services Regiment. It provides a clear insight into the rigours of the SAS selection process, training for war in Papua New Guinea, then in graphic and sometimes raw and brutal detail into combat behind enemy lines in Borneo and South Viet Nam.'It is an engrossing soldier's story. One in ... Read more

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  • Eureka: The story of Australia's most famous rebellion

    by Jill Blee ...
    On 3 December 1854 a bloody battle between gold miners, soldiers and police raged for fifteen minutes at the Eureka Lead in Ballarat. But this brief conflict, which had been brewing for years, would have momentous consequences overturning the accepted social order and bringing democracy to Victoria. EUREKA introduces you to the people and events that shaped this key moment in Australias history. ... Read more

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  • Australians (Volume 2): Eureka to the Diggers

    Eureka to the Diggers

    by Thomas Keneally ...
    In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, artists and hard-nosed radicals, politicians and soldiers all populate this richly drawn portrait of ... Read more

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  • W.E.H. Stanner

    Selected Writings

    by W.E.H. Stanner ...
    One of Australia’s finest essayists, the first to cut through ‘the great Australian silence’ to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians‘The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia’s Indigenous people’ —Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Unnecessary Wars

    by Henry Reynolds ...
    A critical examination of Australia's involvement in the Boer War and its lasting impact on national identity. Why did Australia lose 600 men in a three-year conflict fought in Africa? Henry Reynolds dissects Australia's commitment to Britain's wars overseas, revealing how it shaped a national identity and established a dangerous precedent.Unnecessary Wars explores the mythology surrounding ... Read more

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  • Marngrook and Other Award-winning Stories from the Stringybark Australian History Award

    by David Vernon ...
    "People don't understand how desperate you have to be to eat a boot," he replied. "Exploration of uncharted territory is very demanding, especially in the arctic. They don't realise what we went through: the bitter cold, the scurvy, the unknown. Men died of starvation out there; they did desperate things. These were good men reduced to scraping moss from rocks to survive. Yes, we ate boot leather ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey to a Hanging

    by Peter Wells ...
    Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core. In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. One name – Kereopa Te Rau (Kaiwhatu: The Eye-eater) – became synonymous with the murder. In 1871 he was captured, tried and sentenced to ... Read more

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  • Downunder

    The history of found shipwrecks along the Central and Hunter Coastlines.

    by Paul A. G. Wilson ...
    Series series Downunder
    Have you ever wondered about some of the stories of the maritime disasters that have happened along the Central Coast and Hunter Coastlines of Australia? This book visits the individual histories of located shipwrecks along this notorious coastline.Some of the stories include the tale of the man who survived two shipwrecks. How did Maitland Bay and Susan Gilmore Beach get their names'? What ... Read more

    $24.60 CAD

  • Freedom Ride

    A freedom rider remembers

    by Ann Curthoys ...
    This is the story of Australia's historic Freedom Ride, the 1965 bus journey into the heart of the country to fight racism, from one who was there.One warm midnight in 1965, 29 students from Sydney University set out on a road trip through north western New South Wales. Ann Curthoys, the author of this book, was one of the passengers.This was no ordinary trip and it became known as the 'Freedom ... Read more

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  • Cape York Peninsula

    by Lennie Wallace ...
    Cape York Peninsula is arguably the most exotic wilderness region in Australia. Its history is as colourful as its geography and as steamy as its climate. The era covered is 1845-2003, but historian Lennie Wallace also tells us of early Chinese, Indonesian, Spanish and Portgugese mariners and of many shipwrecks and daring escapes along its dangerous coastline. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD